[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Parker

[Harry Callaghan]

I was about to tell y'all my Omer Simeon story when I suddenly realized that
it had really been about Harry Simeone........How truly embarassing that
might have been.

HC


On 7/22/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to say so, Richard, but Omer Simeon does not play on Bunk and Lu.
> Must have been something else.
> BTW, to my ears it sounds much better than the band with George Lewis.
> Cheers
>
> On 22 July 2010 21:36, FLECKNELL RICHARD <richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
> > My opinion of Parker is that his strengths are not speed or relative
> complex
> > harmonic choices. No it's his emotional impact that comes across to me -
> add
> > to his abilitiy to play the blues in such, then of course, a new and
> > convincing way.
> >
> > Steve B - Omer Simeon featured on one of  two American records that my
> uncle
> > owned back in the sixties - this more than anything else set me on the
> Jazz
> > Trail.
> >
> > Those records were Bunk & Lu (Good Time Jazz) and Kid Ory's Creole Jazz
> Band
> > (Vogue ... Good Time Jazz).  They are still great to me.
> >
> > The records in my father's household were Kenny Ball At The Empire
> Theatre
> > Liverpool and Chris Barber At The London Palladium - still great to my
> ears.
> >
> > Bill - I still get a kick listening to Bud Scott singing Under The Bamboo
> > Tree.  What's that Bill 'not Scott but Bill Johnson' surely not.
> >
> > Richard
> > OzOd Capt.
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